Category: Social Research

As a society, we’ve greeted the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence with open arms, viewing it as a solution to myriad pressing issues facing our planet. But there is a dark side to AI that philosophers like Peter Asaro, Associate ... read more

The New School Collaboratory — an online platform for New School community members interested in socially engaged, collaborative, and transdisciplinary learning and public scholarship — is seeking new projects to profile. This site is an online space for sharing and ... read more

In their study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers have devoted most of their attention to the diagnosis and treatment of children. As a result, says Eiko Ikegami, Walter A. Eberstadt Professor and professor of sociology at The New School ... read more

Members of The New School community will research “Imaginative Mobilities,” reframing debate on the nature, purpose, and futures of borders, through a $225,000 Sawyer Seminar grant awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Through the seminars, faculty members and graduate students ... read more

In recent months, dire news reports have pointed to escalating conflict between the United States and North Korea — and the rising specter of nuclear war. But for many people working on this issue, including Ray Acheson, MA Politics ’14, that threat, ... read more

When Raquel de Anda was organizing the People’s Climate March, in 2014, she hoped to shift the conversation around climate change from “one of polar bears and melting glaciers to one of frontline communities witnessing the effects of climate change ... read more